An extract from Colleen Hubbard’s debut novel, Housebreaking, published by Corsair in the UK in August 2022. She was twenty minutes late for meeting Greg. She had taken a streetcar from a café where she had put in a job application, but a broken train at the next stop had held it up. On […]
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Housebreaking by Colleen Hubbard
Housebreaking is the debut novel by UEA alumna Colleen Hubbard and is published in the UK by Corsair this week. It was published by Berkley in the United States earlier this year. A native of New England, USA, Colleen Hubbard now lives in the UK with her family and works for the NHS. She graduated […]
Helen Baczkowska and Anna Selby longlisted for Nature Chronicles Prize
Two UEA alumnae have been longlisted for the inaugural Nature Chronicles Prize, an international literary award for essay-length nature writing. Anna Selby is nominated for ‘We Grieve Only for What We Know’ and Helen Baczkowska for ‘The Unbounded Land’. Anna (pictured) graduated from the BA in English Literature with Creative Writing in 2005 and from the […]
Max Lury and Ned Carter Miles nominated for awards
UEA alumnus Max Lury and current student Ned Carter Miles have recently been nominated for fiction awards. Max’s ‘Riding Lessons’ has been longlisted for the Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize, which is worth £1,000 to the winner. All the nominated stories will be published in the Brick Lane Bookshop anthology in the autumn. Ned’s […]
Jyoti Patel and Ellen Wiese shortlisted for Bristol Short Story Prize
Current UEA student Ellen Wiese and MA alumna Jyoti Patel have been shortlisted for this year’s Bristol Short Story Prize. Ellen, who is nominated for ‘The Walking King’, is currently completing the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction). Born in Minnesota, she received her BA and MAPH in English Literature from the University of Chicago […]
Two poems from Glut
Two poems from Ramona Herdman’s new poetry collection, Glut, published in August 2022 by Nine Arches Press. Salad spinner I have failed to convey to you why I hate it so much. You laugh. There’s something obscene in plastic things – that the dinosaurs died, prehistoric forests went to mush, the whole […]
Glut by Ramona Herdman
Glut is the new collection of poetry by UEA alumna Ramona Herdman and is published by Nine Arches Press this week. Ramona graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 2001. Her previous collection, A warm and snouting thing, was published by The Emma Press and nominated in the Poetry category for the 2020 […]
Waste Extractions by Andrea Mason
Waste Extractions is a new fiction pamphlet by UEA alumna Andrea Mason and is published by Broken Sleep Books this week. Andrea graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2004 and gained a PhD in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths, London, in 2020. In 2018 her novel, The Cremation Project, was shortlisted for […]
Spoilt Ballots by Matthew Blackman and Nick Dall
Spoilt Ballots: The Elections That Shaped South Africa, From Shaka To Cyril is a new work of non-fiction co-authored by journalists Nick Dall and UEA alumnus Matthew Blackman. It was published on Kindle by Penguin South Africa in February of this year, and will be published as a Zebra Press paperback this week. Matthew gained a […]
Catriona Ward shortlisted for August Derleth Award
The Last House On Needless Street by UEA alumna Catriona Ward has been shortlisted for the August Derleth Award (Best Horror Novel) at the British Fantasy Awards. Catriona (pictured) was born in Washington DC and grew up in America, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen and Morocco. She studied English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and graduated from […]
